The prior few a long time have visible the advance of recent serious tools with which the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of historic Greek texts could be evaluated. during this quantity, a global staff of exceptional students comes jointly to envision how quite a lot of historical texts in numerous genres have been capable of assert their authority and claims to fact, frequently alluding to each other in refined methods as they tried to venture their very own superiority. a sequence of illuminating new readings is available of either specific passages and entire works within the mild of those new serious advances.

A research of medieval attitudes in the direction of the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices via human media, which unearths a development from an orthodox view of divine vocal energy to an nervousness over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive tackle the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.

The allegories of the virtues and vices have been a standard instructing instrument within the heart a while for either spiritual and lay audiences to profit the elemental tenets of the Christian religion. The Mirroure of the Worlde makes on hand for the 1st time the original textual content within the fifteenth-century British manuscript, MS.

Spatial pondering performs an immense function in medieval literature and tradition. this isn't purely proven by means of the massive global maps and theological types of the cosmos in medieval occasions, but additionally by way of the spatial constitution and motifs of the narrative literature. The articles during this quantity discover how areas are defined in narratives from the ninth to the sixteenth century?